LETTERS TO YOU: “How to develop a powerful positive mind-set?”

Updated on May 8, 2011

Dear YOU,

Positive
thinking is one of the most important contributors to success, even more
valuable than luck & fate, because unlike the latter, positive thinking can
be controlled. Positive affirmations is another powerful tool to achieve
exactly what you want - be it health, wealth or happiness. So what are
affirmations? “Affirmation is a declaration that something is true” (Wikipedia).
For example, if you want to be more confident your affirmation will be “I am confident”, “I can be confident” or “I
will be confident”. Affirmation is the way to convince you that something
is true. Once you start believing in what you are saying (i.e. affirming), then
you will realise that it’s not just a simple statement, it is in fact already
true. Do affirmations really work? Is it really that simple? Yes and yes!
Affirmation is a result of positive thinking. In a way, it’s the logical
conclusion in a form of statement. It’s not enough to just think positively.
It’s only a common sense to combine and practise positive thinking and positive
affirmations together. Here are some tips on how to create affirmations and
examples of affirmations in various areas of life. Just go for it and say yes
to life!

Before you start creating your
affirmations, you have to think what area of life you want to improve or
change in some way. Start with an end result in mind. If you are not happy
with your financial situation, think what you want it to be. Then you
simply state it in positive terms. For example, “Money flows freely and abundantly in my life”, “I am the source
of my abundance”, “I feel good about all the money I spend” etc. If
you are not happy with relationships, then your affirmations will be
something like “I accept love and
happiness”, “I am now attracting my dream partner into my life”, “I make
friends easily”, “My friends are loving and supportive” etc.
Affirmations can be created for any area of your life that you want to
improve.

Affirmation is not a hard work, but
still IS work. You have to make it a habit to practise affirmations on a
daily basis. The best times are the morning when you wake up and the
evenings just before you go to sleep. Write down your affirmations on a
card and take them with you wherever you go. Read your affirmations out
loud every chance you get. You will start noticing results in just a few
days. You can come up with new affirmations whenever you feel like it. Do
whatever you want with your affirmations – adjust them, change them, make
them the way you want them to be. There is no right or wrong affirmation.
It’s right as long as it’s stated in the positive words and personal to
you!

Beware that at first affirmations
might sound silly to you because they are not true yet. Your head will be
filled with negative thought now and then. You can say “I am super
confident all the time” but your brain might tell you “Who am I kidding,
that’s not true and never will be”. Don’t over analyse every negative
thought, just let the affirmations do the job. Your belief system will be
challenged. It’s important to stay positive at all times, despite
anything!

Positive affirmations MUST be
practised daily! 21-30 days of practice will make it a habit. Your
positive affirmations will become your new beliefs. Make a list of various
positive words that you like, what you like about these words, what they
mean to you etc. Make sure you have enough to create meaningful
affirmations!

Talk more about the things you
like. Watch what you talk about and the way you talk about it. There
should be more positivity in your sentences.